Palestine

Israel conducts Nazi-style ethnic cleansing: Analyst

339806_Israel-cleansingThe Israeli regime is carrying out large-scale Nazi-style ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank by destroying the Palestinian properties, an analyst tells Press TV.

“In my opinion, this type of large-scale ethnic cleansing is nothing more than what I would call…Israeli style and I think that in its inhumanity and in its callous displacement of indigenous population, I would call it Nazi-like in its extreme disregard for human life for the rule of law,” Bruce Katz said on Friday.

He said the Zionist regime is pushing ahead with its “brazen continuation of ethnic cleansing which has really gone on since 1948.”

On Wednesday, the United Nations denounced Israel for demolition of Palestinian homes and displacement of their residents in the West Bank.

Katz said the Israeli actions are stalling the move towards peace in the Middle East. “I think that there can be no advancement toward any peace process in the Middle East unless there is a regime change in Israel,” he added.

Rights groups say Tel Aviv’s demolitions are aimed at grabbing more land for construction of illegal settlements and launching military projects in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Katz described the Israeli regime as an “illegitimate one,” saying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is wreaking havoc in Israel as well where the level of poverty has increased drastically under his rule.”

The presence and continued expansion of Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine has created a major obstacle for the efforts made to establish peace in the Middle East.

The Israeli regime has recently announced plans to build about 5,000 more illegal settlement units on the occupied Palestinian land.

More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 illegal settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds in 1967.

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